National poll picks Lopez Obrador as presidential candidate in Mexico

Signs with the image Andrés Manuel López Obrador wearing a presidential sash are held above the crowd during a rally in Mexico City in this 2006 file photo. (Associated Press)

The presidential candidate for the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party in 2012 is virtually Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to the results of a poll conducted in Mexico.

The announcement came Tuesday during a news conference in Mexico City, which was televised by different media in that country, among those the Milenio Media Group.

The pollsters Nodo Research + Strategy and Covarrubias and Associates conducted the national poll to define the candidate between and Marcelo Ebrard, who is the current Mexico City Mayor.

“I accept and abide the results of the poll,” said Ebrard who expressed his support of López Obrador in this way.

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador will surely be the presidential candidate of the different forces forming the political left in Mexico, including the Democratic Revolutionary Party, Labor Party, and Citizens’ Movement – formerly known as Convergence.